Railway car



Feb. 28, 1928.

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UNITED STAT Es PATENT OFFICE. 4

WILLIAM GRADY, OF LOUISVILLEQKENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR,` BY M ESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO AMERICAN CREOSOTING COMPANY, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, A COR- PoRATIoN or DELAWARE.

RAILWAY CAR.

Application med may 26,1927. serial No. 194,431.

This invention relates to a `railway car, which because of its manner of use is termed a shuttle car. The car has been designed and is particularly adapted for use in wood preservation plants in which cars loaded with pieces of wood, such as railwayties, poles, and the like, are run into cylinders in which the wood is impregnated with a preservative such as creosote.

These cars are provided with bolster arms for laterally supporting the load, which is held in place by bails curved to conform to the shape of the inipregnating cylinder, as will be readily understood from Patent No. 1,428,474, patented Sept. 5, 1922, to Cook and Austen. These removable bails are provided with detachable fastenings for securing them to the bolster arms.

In practice a large number of these bolster arm tram cars are` employed in a wood preservation plant and are used, inter alia, in transporting the ties from the storage yard, which may cover many acres, to a woodworking plant in which they are adzed and bored prior to impregnation. In thus transporting the ties, in order that increased loads may be carried, detachable arm extensions of the kind described in my application Ser. No. 185,502, tiled April 21, 1927, are used.

In the cycle of operations, the cars loaded with ties are taken to the wood-working plant and unloaded, the arm extensions be ing removed. The cars are then loaded With the adzed and bored ties, the bails are applied, and the loaded ears are run `into the impregnating cylinders, from which thestill loaded cars are transferred to the shipping dock or platform, where the bails have to `be and are removed, and the ties unloaded. The cars are then again equipped with extension arms and go out into the storage yard for new loads. There is thus an accumulation of extension arms at the Wood-working plant, and an accumulation of bails at the shipping dock. In order to facilitate the transfer or interchange of the bails and e1:- tension arms from the places Where they are not needed to the places where they are needed, I have devised a special form of car, constructed andv arranged to conveniently carry both the bails and the extension arms, a particular feature of the car being that the bails can readily be put on and taken olf without liability of entanglement.

v The construction of the car Will be readily understood from the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is an end view of one :form of car;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan view of an end portion of the car, some parts being` shown in section;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one of the two similarly constructed ends of the car;

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are similar views of a modified form of car; and

Figs. 7 and 8 are respectively diagrammatic end and side views of the car showing the manner in which the balls and extension arms are carried onthe cars.

Referring to Fig. 1, the frame Work of the car, having the usual running gear, comprises transverse and longitudinal beams 2, which support tlierfloor 3. Extending upwardly from the floor are a series of arched angle irons 4 having substantially the same curvature as the bails 6, to which is secured a curved sheet-iron cover At the ends of the top or peak of the cover are provided upstanding lugs 12 to prevent the bails from sliding off.

Located at each side of the car are pockets 7 the bottoms of which are extensions of the bot-tom plate, and the sides upwardly extendingplates 8. Partition 20 may be provided between the pockets. End plates 9 extend across the ends of the car.

The ends of the barilsy when mounted on the car extend into these pockets which also serve to catch and retain bale pins, fastenings and other small articles.

Hooks 10 are secured to beams 2, to facilitate shifting of the cars.

In the modified form of cars shown in Figs. et, 5 and 6,'t-he roof or cover is gableshaped instead of curved, the construction being otherwise the same. Corresponding parts of this modified form are marked with the same reference letters, except that the inclined supporting beams are marked 4". In both forms the sides of the cover are inclined, being curved in the onecase and straight in the other. The manner of use will be apparent from Figs. 7 and 8.

The bails 6 are placed astride t-he saddle top, with their ends extending into the pockets, so that they can not slide out of osition. The lugs 12 prevent them from eing dislodged endwise during transportation, and the inclined cover or roof 5 guides the ends of the hails as they are dropped down, and prev-ents the ends of the hails from entering the interior or" the car. The interior of the car under the roof serves to receive the extension arms 13 as shown in Fig. 7, the end pieces 9 serving to prevent the interior load from sliding,- out.

I claim:

1. A car having a closed cover or roof extending upwardly from the floor7 the sides of the cover being inclined, upwardly eX- tending lugs at each end of the top of the cover, and a. iioor extending beyond the sides of the cover.

2. A car as claimed in claim 1 in which the cover is curved to the approximate curvature of the article, such as al bail, to be carried thereon.

3. A car as claimed in claim l in vwhich pockets are constructed on the part of the floor extending` beyond the cover.

4. A car as claimed in claim l in which pockets are constructed on the part of the iioor extending` bevond the cover, and end plates extend across the ends ot the car.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature.

WILLIAW H. GRADY. 

